Teaching at Nottingham
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Valuing our teaching
February 1, 2011
Video >> Paul Greatrix: “I think recognising excellent teaching is hugely important and before I came to Nottingham, I was impressed from afar with the Lord Dearing Awards because they seemed to me to be an explicit and overt way of really celebrating teaching within the University. They are very competitive and the award of them …
Listening to our students
Video >> Amir Ghaemmaghami: “For every single module we have a module evaluation from the students. We also have staff/student committees which meet at least once every term, sometimes more. There is at least one representative, usually two representatives, from the course who attend and if there are any issues, we can discuss them as …
The Nottingham Advantage Award
Video >> Paul Greatrix: “Students, when they graduate, will want to feel confident that the skills, the learning, the knowledge they’ve acquired, the experience, the personal development they’ve gone through at University is something that will enable them to be more ready for work, whatever kind of work that may be, whenever they choose to …
Supporting students in reaching their academic potential
Video >> Robin Dollery: “Getting into a University like Nottingham is very competitive. Once we get our students here, we would like to make sure they’re successful and so we try to think about that quite carefully, and it seems to us there are a couple of very important principles within this. “In a very …
Katharina Lorenz on teaching critical skills
Video >> Katharina Lorenz: “There’s an advantage looking at Classics to actually practice some of the analytical skills one needs to understand cultures better. “I think this is one of the real essence of doing something like Classics is to force people to be very, to scrutinise what they see in the world around them …
Optimising small group teaching in Psychology
September 21, 2010
Antonia Hamilton: Background & Significance “Small group teaching (tutorials) forms an essential part of the psychology course and is valued by students, with many students asking for more contact with tutors. However, the quality of small group teaching can be very variable, as noted in the recent National Students Survey results for University of Nottingham. …
Development of Anatomy CAL using Xerte Online Toolkits
July 4, 2010
The Medical School had a number of Anatomy CAL (Computer Aided Learning) packages, created in Authorware over a number of years. Due to their age and format they were not easy to update or support but they did contain relevant and useful content. There was a requirement for the packages to be reviewed and where …
Guiding students in reading for seminars
June 26, 2010
Video >> Kate: “What can you do to help and support students who are maybe struggling with those skills?” Nick Thomas: “We tailor the reading list very closely, or at least I do, for the seminars so that the recommended titles are made very clear for that particular seminar. It’s very clear which books are …
Helping students to identify what they’ve learned on placement
January 26, 2010
Video >> Annie: “We’ve had students out on placement before. They usually stay with us for about six weeks, and towards the end of the six weeks they’re starting to be involved with patient education. They do the sessions, the patient education sessions at phase three. They become more confident talking about coronary heart disease …
Learning Sets as a strategy to enable learning from a work placement
Video >> Alison: “I think the role of the learning set, for me, in bringing students and mentors to share their practice is to develop critical thinking, to actually enable students and mentors to critically discuss, have time to reflect, have time to think about and challenge practice and then usually take some action, personal …
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